The best Lord of the Rings movie would blend a high-stakes mission and romance, but there's one thing preventing it from ...

World War II led C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien to infuse their early experiments in fantasy with a sense of moral urgency.

Everyone loves "The Lord of the Rings." They make up a quarter of the top 12 movies of all time on IMDb's top 250 movie list, for goodness' sake. "The Hobbit" films are less grand but still ...

J.R.R. Tolkien made a vast and detailed lore for The Lord of the Rings, but one aspect was far more important than anyone ...

Dillon is a multifaceted writer and creative with a background in screenwriting, film, and digital media production. His writing is informed by a boundless passion for story and a keen eye for craft ...

On July 29, 1954 — 70 years ago Monday — English author, linguist and university professor J.R.R. Tolkien published “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first of three volumes of a richly detailed world ...

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), “The Shores of Faery, 10 May 1915,” watercolor, black ink, pencil (Tolkien Trust, MS,Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r., © The ...

A Tolkien nerd and a girl who has never seen a single “Lord of the Rings” movie walk into a theater to see “The Lord of The Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” together. This is not a setup for a poor ...

On Sept. 15, 1939, two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering World War II, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his publisher to explain why he didn’t expect to make much progress on his new story ...

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! On this day, we’re celebrating the Eldandili Fantasy Choir. Jennie Tiderman-Österberg Enbacka village, Gustafs, Sweden, April 22, 2023 “Suilad, Eldandili Fantasy Choir. Mae ...

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This encyclopedic collection is full of notes, commentaries, and different versions of the stories. It even includes the history of his "legendarium," the term for Tolkien's greater mythology of ...